Inquiry Quotes

The Inquiry

1.    Is it true?
2.    Can I absolutely know that it’s true?
3.    How do I react when I think that thought?
4.    Who would I be without the thought

and then

Turn it around.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Self-Development Quotes on: The Work, Inquiry

If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
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I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work…Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Inspirational Quotes on: Experience, Katie, Work, Chaos, Rent, Peace, World, The Work, Inquiry

You might believe that it’s only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
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You can’t drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn’t. And when the truth is seen, there’s nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Self-Development Quotes on: Truth, Katie, Light, Shine, Thought, Inquiry

It’s important to realize that inquiry is about noticing, not about dropping the thought… Inquiry is not about getting rid of thoughts; it’s about realizing what’s true for you, through awareness and unconditional self-love. Once you see the truth, the thought lets go of you, not the other way around.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Motivational Quotes on: Thoughts, Love, Truth, War, Katie, Awareness, Thought, Aware, Inquiry

When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Inspirational Quotes on: Experience, War, Katie, Act, Suffering, Feelings, Suffer, Friend, Friends, Feel, Inquiry

There is no thought or situation that you can’t put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Famous Quotes on: Katie, Rent, Freedom, Problem, Thought, Inquiry

After you’ve been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought “She doesn’t love me,” you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: “Oh, I’m not loving myself in this moment.”

~ Byron Katie Quotes from Loving What Is
Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Katie, Smile, Doing, Thought, Moment, Inquiry